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(Guide)Standard Guide for Climate Resiliency Planning and Strategy
Standard Guide for Climate Resiliency Planning and Strategy
SIGNIFICANCE AND USE
4.1 The Use of this Standard Guide—This guide addresses issues related solely to adaptation strategies and development of a plan to address extreme weather and related physical changes. This guide does not include specific guidance on risk assessment, however references are provided in Appendix X3. The matrix approach does reflect general risks for certain regions of the country, based upon the frequency of extreme weather and/or conditions such as fires, floods, storms, drought, and extreme temperatures. Adaptation strategies and planning may consist of a wide variety of actions by an individual, community, or organization to prepare for, or respond to, the impacts of extreme weather.
4.1.1 This guide does not address causes of extreme weather.
4.1.2 This guide addresses adjustment strategies and planning that a group of people or ecosystems make to limit negative effects of extreme weather. It also addresses taking advantage of opportunities that long term extreme weather patterns may present.
4.2 Example Users:
4.2.1 Small businesses or enterprises;
4.2.2 Service industries;
4.2.3 Federal, state or municipal facilities and regulators, including departments of health and fire departments;
4.2.4 Financial and insurance institutions;
4.2.5 Public works staff, including water system, stormwater system, wastewater system, solid waste, and other utilities (electrical, telephone, gas, et al) and other waste managers, including liquid and solid waste haulers, treatment, recycling, disposal and transfer;
4.2.6 Consultants, auditors, state, municipal and private inspectors and compliance assistance personnel;
4.2.7 Educational facilities;
4.2.8 Property, buildings and grounds management, including landscaping;
4.2.9 Non-regulatory government agencies, such as the military;
4.2.10 Wildlife management entities including government, tribal and NGOs.
4.3 This guide is a first step in crafting simplified goals for managing and communic...
SCOPE
1.1 Overview—For the purposes of this guide, ‘resiliency’ refers to efforts by entities, organizations, or individuals to prepare for or adjust to future extreme weather and related physical conditions. The primary purpose is to reduce negative economic impacts associated with extreme weather.
1.1.1 This guide presents a generalized, systematic approach to voluntary assessment and risk management of extreme climate related events and conditions. It helps the user structure their understanding of the climate related vulnerabilities and consequences they seek to manage. It helps the user identify adaptive actions of both an institutional (legal), as well as engineering (physical) nature. Options for analysis provide a priority ranking system to address the “worst first” risks of a municipality, local area or facility, addressing practicality and cost-benefit. Users may approach this analysis having initially undertaken a risk assessment to determine what they are seeking to manage, or use the guide to help determine the likely areas of greatest need.
1.1.2 These climate adaptations or adjustments may be either protective (that is, guarding against negative impacts of extreme weather), or opportunistic (that is, taking advantage of any beneficial effects of extreme weather).
1.1.3 This guide addresses adaptation strategies and planning in response to various impacts that may occur to individuals, organizations, human settlements or ecosystems in a broad variety of ways. For example, extreme weather might increase or decrease rainfall, influence agricultural crop yields, affect human health, cause changes to forests and other ecosystems, or impact energy supply or infrastructure.
1.1.4 Climate-related impacts may occur locally within a region or across a country and may affect many sectors of the economy. In order to meet these challenges, this guide provides an organized, uniform approach to prepare for the impa...
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Designation: E3032 − 15
Standard Guide for
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Climate Resiliency Planning and Strategy
This standard is issued under the fixed designation E3032; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
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ε NOTE—5.9.1, 6.3.4.4, 6.3.4.5, and X4.2.1 were editorially corrected in May 2016.
INTRODUCTION
This guide provides a set of options for planning climate resiliency management. This includes
adapting local business and government infrastructure to chronic, extreme weather events and sea
level rise. It may not apply to entities where such assessment and risk management is already widely
available through standard sets of guidance, such as the construction of green buildings. This guide
provides a voluntary framework of the risk management options and steps that may be beneficial to
evaluate climate resiliency solutions. It provides strategies for existing organizations, even those
currently operating outside of various voluntary and regulatory schemes. The environmental
assessment and risk management strategies contained in this guide recognize the overall value of
existing responses. This guide references and blends similar, effective programs and extends them to
provide a consistent approach that will facilitate communication and preparation for extreme weather
events.
Background—This guide presents a series of options for an individual, group or entity to use. The
goal is a strategy or plan to address extreme weather.
1. Scope extreme weather), or opportunistic (that is, taking advantage of
any beneficial effects of extreme weather).
1.1 Overview—For the purposes of this guide, ‘resiliency’
1.1.3 This guide addresses adaptation strategies and plan-
refers to efforts by entities, organizations, or individuals to
ning in response to various impacts that may occur to
prepare for or adjust to future extreme weather and related
individuals, organizations, human settlements or ecosystems in
physical conditions. The primary purpose is to reduce negative
a broad variety of ways. For example, extreme weather might
economic impacts associated with extreme weather.
increase or decrease rainfall, influence agricultural crop yields,
1.1.1 This guide presents a generalized, systematic ap-
affect human health, cause changes to forests and other
proach to voluntary assessment and risk management of
ecosystems, or impact energy supply or infrastructure.
extreme climate related events and conditions. It helps the user
structure their understanding of the climate related vulnerabili-
1.1.4 Climate-related impacts may occur locally within a
ties and consequences they seek to manage. It helps the user
region or across a country and may affect many sectors of the
identifyadaptiveactionsofbothaninstitutional(legal),aswell
economy.Inordertomeetthesechallenges,thisguideprovides
as engineering (physical) nature. Options for analysis provide
an organized, uniform approach to prepare for the impacts of
a priority ranking system to address the “worst first” risks of a
extreme weather through planned “resiliency” strategies.
municipality, local area or facility, addressing practicality and
1.1.5 This guide addresses options to deal with risk factors
cost-benefit. Users may approach this analysis having initially
that may be key drivers for the economy, human health, the
undertaken a risk assessment to determine what they are
environment, or ecosystems. The guide is aimed at helping
seeking to manage, or use the guide to help determine the
users understand risks and potential losses, and offers options
likely areas of greatest need.
and a generalized approach to bolster human and ecosystem
1.1.2 These climate adaptations or adjustments may be
resiliency to a changing climate. This includes sustainability
either protective (that is, guarding against negative impacts of
concepts such as support of economic stability and a good
quality of life.
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ThisguideisunderthejurisdictionofASTMCommitteeE50onEnvironmental
1.1.6 Adaptation can involve responses to extreme weather
Assessment, Risk Management and CorrectiveAction and is the direct responsibil-
and long-term preparation for future events. Local conditions
ity of Subcommittee E50.05 on Environmental Risk Management.
will require risk evaluation and analysis of both likely weather
Current edition approved Dec. 1, 2015. Published January 2016. DOI: 10.1520/
E3032–15E01 events and/or extreme weather trends.
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Designation: E3032 − 15 E3032 − 15
Standard Guide for
1
Climate Resiliency Planning and Strategy
This standard is issued under the fixed designation E3032; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
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ε NOTE—5.9.1, 6.3.4.4, 6.3.4.5, and X4.2.1 were editorially corrected in May 2016.
INTRODUCTION
This guide provides a set of options for planning climate resiliency management. This includes
adapting local business and government infrastructure to chronic, extreme weather events and sea
level rise. It may not apply to entities where such assessment and risk management is already widely
available through standard sets of guidance, such as the construction of green buildings. This guide
provides a voluntary framework of the risk management options and steps that may be beneficial to
evaluate climate resiliency solutions. It provides strategies for existing organizations, even those
currently operating outside of various voluntary and regulatory schemes. The environmental
assessment and risk management strategies contained in this guide recognize the overall value of
existing responses. This guide references and blends similar, effective programs and extends them to
provide a consistent approach that will facilitate communication and preparation for extreme weather
events.
Background—This guide presents a series of options for an individual, group or entity to use. The
goal is a strategy or plan to address extreme weather.
1. Scope
1.1 Overview—For the purposes of this guide, ‘resiliency’ refers to efforts by entities, organizations, or individuals to prepare
for or adjust to future extreme weather and related physical conditions. The primary purpose is to reduce negative economic
impacts associated with extreme weather.
1.1.1 This guide presents a generalized, systematic approach to voluntary assessment and risk management of extreme climate
related events and conditions. It helps the user structure their understanding of the climate related vulnerabilities and consequences
they seek to manage. It helps the user identify adaptive actions of both an institutional (legal), as well as engineering (physical)
nature. Options for analysis provide a priority ranking system to address the “worst first” risks of a municipality, local area or
facility, addressing practicality and cost-benefit. Users may approach this analysis having initially undertaken a risk assessment to
determine what they are seeking to manage, or use the guide to help determine the likely areas of greatest need.
1.1.2 These climate adaptations or adjustments may be either protective (that is, guarding against negative impacts of extreme
weather), or opportunistic (that is, taking advantage of any beneficial effects of extreme weather).
1.1.3 This guide addresses adaptation strategies and planning in response to various impacts that may occur to individuals,
organizations, human settlements or ecosystems in a broad variety of ways. For example, extreme weather might increase or
decrease rainfall, influence agricultural crop yields, affect human health, cause changes to forests and other ecosystems, or impact
energy supply or infrastructure.
1.1.4 Climate-related impacts may occur locally within a region or across a country and may affect many sectors of the
economy. In order to meet these challenges, this guide provides an organized, uniform approach to prepare for the impacts of
extreme weather through planned “resiliency” strategies.
1.1.5 This guide addresses options to deal with risk factors that may be key drivers for the economy, human health, the
environment, or ecosystems. The guide is aimed at helping users understand risks and potential losses, and offers options and a
generalized approach to bolster human and ecosystem resiliency to a changing climate. This includes sustainability concepts such
as support of economic stability and a good quality of life.
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This guide is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee E50 on Environmental Assessment, Risk Management and Corrective Action and is the direct responsibility
of Subcommittee E50.05 on Environmental Risk Management.
Current edition approved Dec. 1, 2015. Published January 2016. DOI: 10.1520/E3032–1510.1520/E3032–15E01
Copyright © ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, PO Box C700, West Conshohocken
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